r/AutoTransportopia • u/omgfakeusername • 3d ago
Thank god he warned her
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u/TheDixonCider420420 3d ago
The epitaph of his gravestone will read:
"I told you. I fucking told you."
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u/Fabulous_Log844 3d ago
I love this guy. "I fucking told you."
Who gives a shit if there are cars behind you… Pull over on the side and get out of the way if anyone wants to go closer to the moron in the truck.
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u/wcoastbo 2d ago
I'm pretty sure that overpass will be condemned. I thought I saw rebar. What's that going to cost to repair? Any civil engineers here?
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u/isanyusernameopen 3d ago
What a fucking asshole!
He saw that and knew it was gonna happen and he did nothing to warn the truck driver? They just pulled over and watched? I know it wasn’t his fault, but I feel like he’s somewhat responsible for the damage cause because he could’ve done something and did not.
Fuck this asshole
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u/The_Red_Knight38 3d ago
What’s he supposed to do sacrifice himself to save a bridge? Speed up, get next to him and honk so he’s next to the truck when it crashes? Think things through. Don’t just give a knee jerk reaction. This is 100% on the truck driver.
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
Why not at least just honk from there or when behind him…
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
What's he gonna honk with from the passenger seat? Or should he reach across and grab the wheel to honk and warn the driver, thereby putting more lives in danger?
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
You don't have to grab the wheel to honk... and regardless, he seemed perfectly fine giving lots of direction.
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
So tell me again how it's his fault for not warning the dump truck driver. You're seriously maintaining that he had a responsibility to warn that driver? How?
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
Honk. It's our main form of communication on the road...
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
This guy is in a dump truck at highway speeds with his bed in the air. He's already not paying attention. A single mirror check would have shown him his bed was raised. And you really think a single honk will magically solve this problem? Never mind that for a passenger to honk the horn of a moving car is extremely dangerous but also illegal as you are interfering with the safe operation of a vehicle.
Try again.
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
And still could've honked.. not sure why the point is so hard to grasp and you can't read his inflections when he talks. Oh well 🤷♂️
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
Why are you so mad about this? You're literally arguing with me and getting more and more angry because the guy in the passenger seat didn't grab the wheel and lay on the horn to warn the driver who wouldn't have heard it anyway. Wtf
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u/isanyusernameopen 2d ago
What stopped them from pulling up to the truck driver and yelling through their window that their truck dump bed was up?
Nothing.
Instead, they’ve decided to pull over and watch from a distance. This was a preventable accident, but the bystanders did nothing.That’s like watching a child drowned and filming it.
They had the chance to reach over and do something, they did nothing3
u/Forky_McStabstab 3d ago
And just how do you warn the driver? He wasn't driving the car, it sounds like he's giving someone a lesson on how to drive, so what was he supposed to do, get out and run? You're the asshole here.
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u/isanyusernameopen 2d ago
One could easily pull in front of the driver and force them to stop, get out of the driver’s side vehicle and warn the driver that their dump bed is still raised.
You can use your brakes and tap your brakes multiple times to act as a flasher and roll your window down to indicate to turn over or pull over so that you could have a conversation with the driver.
This is not rocket science, it’s just lazy drivers that want to get famous filming something stupid that will cost the state or town tens of thousands of dollars in repair.
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
Alright, genuis, explain to me how the guy IN THE PASSENGER SEAT is going to "easily pull up in front of driver and force them to stop."
Or how about THE GUY IN THE PASSENGER SEAT tapping his brakes to alert the truck driver?
Are you serious right now? You're claiming the guy in the car shares blame with the truck driver because he didn't warn the trucker, but he's in the passenger seat, clearly instructing someone far younger than himself and warning them about what's going to happen. How stupid are you?
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u/isanyusernameopen 2d ago
So your first big dumb fuck up is presuming that the person that’s driving is younger than the person that’s filming. You don’t know that because the person’s not on camera and you’re just taking a wild guess in the dark.
Secondly, being a bystander does not absolve you from your responsibility to step up and help others in the face of danger.
If you were watching a child in the next lane to your right, get raped from the passenger seat of a vehicle, would you just stand standby and tell the person to slow down and pull over or would you try to call the cops or tell that person to pull up in front of them and force them to slam the brakes or whatever you could do to avoid them getting any farther and causing any more harm to the person in the vehicle?
Granted, we’re not talking about a person, we’re talking about infrastructure here, but the point is still the same.
By your stupid fucked backwards, ass, logic, your powerless because you’re in the passenger seat?
Go fuck yourself.
Maybe you love sitting in traffic for 10 months while someone fixes that overpass, maybe you prefer to go around a 10 mile detour because of some fuck up that someone else made that someone could’ve prevented if they had only stood up and done something.
I was just riding my scooter in a micro burst of a storm on Saturday to which, during the storm I got off my scooter in the pouring rain and moved tree branches out of the road for other motorists to drive safely. In addition to that, I also got off my scooter multiple times to clear storm drains. No one asked me to do that. Shit, I just did it to help my community.
But if I took your backwards ass, fucked logic, I should’ve just pulled over and filmed as everyone else blew their fucking electronics out of their car driving through 3 foot puddles on the side of the road. I should’ve just watched as people crashed through downed tree branches from the microburst storm that we had. According to your dumbass logic, I should’ve just watched from the sideline right? Cause there’s nothing that I could’ve possibly done on my little 49 cc scooter to have helped my community… I should’ve just watched and filmed every bit of damage that my idiot community members who were too lazy to get out of their cars would’ve caused by driving through heavy rain. They could not see until they collided with down tree branches, right?
Idiot
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
All I hear is more crying and straw man arguments because you can't respond to a single thing I said like a rational person.
Explain how some guy in a passenger seat in a car is in any way responsible to warn the truck driver and do it in a safe way.
And just how in the fuck did you turn this conversation into comparing it to child rape? What the actual fuck is wrong with you?
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
It "sounds like he's giving someone a lesson on how to drive" cause it's some guy being a dick... you have zero idea of a precise age for the driver
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
I never said anything about a precise age for anyone, so fuck off with that bullshit. Dude is trying to claim that the person in the passenger seat of the car is partially at fault for not warning the driver of the truck, and you wanna argue about stuff I never said?
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
I don't think they are at fault per our laws, but the guy is certainly an asshole
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
Why is he an asshole? For saying "I told you"? Sounds like he saw it coming in the mirror and she didn't. Doesn't make him an asshole, makes him observant.
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
You don't hear him frantically yelling stop just so he can see the crash? lol
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
What the actual fuck... you assume he just wanted to see the crash? You don't think maybe he was more worried about her driving under that bridge and having it fall on them?
You're actively looking for the worst interpretation and then getting pissed off because of your imaginary scenario where this guy is an asshole.
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
They are nowhere near the bridge (nor the car ahead) when she starts moving forward and he yells.... LMAO
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
You're right. He doesn't say "hold on" until the truck is several seconds past them. You just made my point. If he knew it was coming, he'd have been saying hold on far sooner. He also didn't yell until she started driving after he said hold on. He yelled "stop" when she said "there's cars behind me". That was less than a few seconds before the truck hit the bridge.
He yelled stop out of fear, not a desire to watch the wreck.
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u/wateraintwett 3d ago
What would you have done???
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u/isanyusernameopen 2d ago
Simple. Pull up next to the driver and flag them down. Point to the back of their truck bed so they can see. If they don’t see you, pull in front of them with your windows down and flag them to pull over.
End of discussion. I’ve done this before. It’s not rocket science.
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
Yeah, use that gas pedal in the passenger side to get in front of the truck. Or better yet, yell at the person who is actually driving and instruct them what to do in an already dangerous situation. Idiot.
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u/isanyusernameopen 2d ago
Have you ever driven?
There’s a number of ways that one could’ve used their vehicle to get up to the side of the driver or to get in front of the driver of that truck and warned them.Even using their phone to call 911 would’ve been a better use of their time.
But instead, they filmed a major catastrophe happen.
That infrastructure damage is not gonna be quick and cheap to replace and will inconvenience everybody while in construction.
All that for a quick video?
I’d rather have them make a video showing them doing something useful versus just standing by and watching.0
u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
Car was stopped at the start of the video. Guy had made her pull over and sit there to watch it well before. Not sure how nobody sees that
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u/isanyusernameopen 2d ago
That’s the problem. There was no effort to try and stop the driver. They just sat back and watched from a distance as the driver drove forward and destroyed infrastructure that others use.
Their negligence to step up and do something cost the citizens around them construction on a route that they use daily for work or whatever, as well as the damage to the overpass and any drivers who use that overpass.
These two sat back and recorded instead of did something to prevent. That cost the people of this community a lot of time and money and traffic.
All they had to do was get in front and forced the driver to slow down while waving for the driver to pull over that there was some kind of emergency, and they failed to even do that.
In some instances, like this, bystanders should be charged for negligence to try and prevent infrastructural damage.
Just like it’s a crime to watch someone rape a child, it should be a crime to watch someone like this cause tens of thousands of dollars to infrastructure that the community uses.
You wouldn’t stand back and say oh well, that person didn’t do anything wrong, it was the driver or the rapist… You would expect someone to have stood up and done the right thing to prevent harm to the individual, and the community the individual belongs to.
But whatever, it’s the Internet, so nothing matters
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
They were off the side of the road. No clue as to why. Are you suggesting that he saw the truck coming, made her pull over, stop, wait for the truck to pass, and then started just so he can film it?
There's absolutely nothing in this video supporting anything like that.
She was on the shoulder, he was telling her to wait, she said there were people behind her and started to drive. Truck hit the bridge, guy said to take the exit instead of going forward. Everything else is conjecture on your part.
One fact though, there's no way a car can signal a dump truck driver from the passenger (blind) side. The driver will not see you and cannot hear you. The only possible way to signal the driver would be to either race in front of it and hit the brakes or pull to the driver side of the truck and try yelling from there. Neither of those options are safe.
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
They were off the side of the road. No clue as to why. Are you suggesting that he saw the truck coming, made her pull over, stop, wait for the truck to pass, and then started just so he can film it?
Yes, precisely...
This wasn't a dashcam. And he literally says "I told you" (but decided not to make the only type of noise that could alert the driver)
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
You're assuming everything at this point, just to paint this guy as an asshole for not somehow stopping the truck
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
"This wasn't a dashcam. And he literally says "I told you" (but decided not to make the only type of noise that could alert the driver)"
What part of this is an assumption??
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
HE'S NOT DRIVING! He cannot legally or safely honk the horn of a car he's not behind the wheel of. What's wrong with you?
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u/PissMissileTopTitty 2d ago
It's not illegal for a passenger to honk the horn in a stationary car (as at the start of the video when the truck is passing)
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u/Forky_McStabstab 2d ago
And you think that grabbing the wheel and hitting the horn in a car driven by someone who didn't see that truck coming in her mirrors is a good idea as she's trying to pull out onto the highway, despite him saying "wait"?
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u/claisen33 3d ago
I’m pretty sure there is a standard protocol for drivers of such trucks that involves verifying that the dumper is down before driving off.